Grants

100% Digital Leeds: Digital Inclusion Fund

Introduction to the fund

We are offering grants of £1,000 to £10,000 to help overcome any barriers to digital inclusion that your organisation faces, such as buying equipment, hiring tutors, and paying for connectivity. We have £100,000 available to help third sector organisations working with hard to reach groups across Leeds to embed digital inclusion activity into their future delivery.

What we want to do

Thousands of adults in Leeds lack basic digital skills. A lack of digital skills can have a huge negative impact on a person’s life, and it’s those who are already at a disadvantage – through age, income, disability, unemployment, or education – that are most likely to be digitally excluded.

We know that helping people to become digitally included will bring wider social benefits. Improved digital skills help people be better informed, pay less for things, be more employable, feel more independent, be less isolated, and live better, easier, longer lives.

We want everyone to understand how digital would benefit them, be able to gain the skills they need to make the most of digital, and get connected.

Partnering with the third sector

The 100% Digital Leeds team know that we can’t reach all of these people ourselves and we understand the value of the third sector in connecting with the hardest to reach citizens of Leeds. We are working to support third sector organisations embed digital inclusion activity into their core service.

We’re already doing this with our Tablet Lending Scheme and our Digital Champions Scheme, which help organisations build their digital skills and confidence and gives them the freedom to pilot new approaches to digital inclusion that best suit their service users. Find out how organisations have already benefited by looking at our Impact.

The Digital Inclusion Fund will help organisations take the next step by allowing them to overcome any barriers currently stopping them embedding digital inclusion activity into their future delivery. We take a furthest first approach

Who should apply

We would like to see applications from third sector organisations who are:

Facing a barrier to delivering digital inclusion activity

Committed to embedding digital inclusion activity into their future offer